Saturday science subject: Why did it have to be snakes?
Ever see an anaconda? Now imagine being stared down by something over twice as long and 30 times as heavy. That about sums up the Titanoboa, a giant snake newly discovered by Jason Head of the University of Toronto and his colleagues. The Not Exactly Rocket Science blog has...
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Deal of the week: A dirt-cheap terabyte and a half
Western Digital may have snatched the capacity crown with its 2TB Caviar Green, but that hard drive sells for an intimidating $270. By contrast, Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11 has been going down in price latelyآ—and today, it looks like you can have it delivered to your door for just...
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MSI announces Wind NetOn AP1900 all-in-one nettop
After previewing the Wind NetOn AP1900 at CES in January, MSI has formally announced the all-in-one nettop. The system has the same basic look as Apple's iMacs, but it includes an Atom N270 processor, and MSI claims it's just 1.38" deep—almost like a folded netbook tablet on a...
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Chrome could support Firefox-like extensions by late May
Google's web browser may get Firefox-style extensions in just three months, according to a sharp-eyed Silicon Valley blogger. Chrome Product Manager Brian Rakowski already announced upcoming extension support last month, but he said the functionality would arrive gradually, and he didn't mention a precise schedule. However, blogger Nicholas Moline...
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10.1-inch Aspire One could show up later this month
Although Acer's Aspire One has managed to eclipse Asus' Eee PCs in terms of worldwide popularity, the netbook is only available with an 8.9" display. Well, that's about to change. DigiTimes reports that Acer has started "small volume shipments" of a 10.1" Aspire One in Hong Kong and...
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Left 4 Dead DLC to arrive in the spring
In late December, Valve writer Chet Faliszek stated that an announcement about upcoming Left 4 Dead downloadable content would come "shortly." True to its strangely warped definition of time, Valve finally posted the announcement yesterday afternoon. As Shacknews reports, the company intends to release the DLC this spring (which...
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Analyst predicts Nvidia-powered Microsoft phone
Ever since Apple released the iPhone, folks have been hinting and speculating that Microsoft could follow up with its own handsetآ—Windows Mobile partnerships be damned. So far, though, both Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates have remained adamant that Windows Mobile is all Microsoft's concerned about. CNet News now quotes an...
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New triple-channel Corsair DDR3 kits run at up to 2GHz
Corsair isn't joking around with its latest batch of DDR3 kits for Core i7 systems. The memory firm has launched three kits as part of a new Dominator GT lineup, which mixes blistering clock speeds, fancy cooling, and intimidating price tags. Expect to find just one Dominator GT kit in...
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Time Warner quotas to spread to more cities
Bad news for Time Warner Cable customers. According to Alley Insider, the cable firm has revealed plans to expand bandwidth usage restriction trials to more cities this year. Time Warner Cable COO Landel Hobbs reportedly broke the news during the company's fourth-quarter results call yesterday. The trials kicked off...
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AMD to do some graphics card re-branding, too
Recent rumors about Nvidia's GPU renaming plans haven't exactly generated a lot of positive vibes. According to Fudzilla, however, AMD has similar changes in store for low-end RV600-series offerings. Rather than quiz obscure sources at graphics card makers, Fudo simply opened .inf files from the latest Catalyst 9.1 graphics...
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XFX finally introduces Radeon HD 4870 X2
When XFX announced plans to offer AMD graphics cards alongside its Nvidia lineup last year, the firm promised Radeons all the way up to the 4870 X2 model. When XFX Radeons subsequently came out, however, the fastest model was a plain-old 4870...
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GeForce 9 rebranding may take effect next month
For weeks now, we've been hearing that Nvidia will re-introduce some GeForce 9 graphics cards under new GeForce GTS and GeForce GT branding. Well, Expreview now claims to know when the change will finally take place: March 3, or the first Tuesday of the month, right before the...
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Skype 4.0 brings new interface, better quality
A new major release of Skype's popular voice-over-IP application has hit the webآ—for Windows users, at least. Skype 4.0 is purportedly the "most distinctive new release in the company's five-year history," and it brings a revamped user interface, audio quality and bandwidth management improvements, simpler video calling, and some...
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Shacknews gets acquired by GameFly
Our friends over at Shacknews are getting some new bosses. They've announced that online game rental service GameFly has purchased the site and its spinoffs, including FileShack and Shackvideo. The change of ownership could help Shacknews grow without changing its editorial content: GameFly co-founder Sean Spector explains, "We purchased Shacknews...
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Poll: One last netbook question
Yes, we've already done a netbook survey, but you know how those things goآ—some great addition can come to mind a little while after the fact, when it's too late to make changes. Since our front page poll also needed an update, though, we decided to indulge ourselves. Our last...
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TR survey results shed light on netbook buying patterns
Our netbook survey has been up for a week now, and since the vote counter doesn't seem to be going up much further, we thought we'd share the results with you. Almost 1300 folks responded to the first question, with 42% of them saying they owned a netbook, purchased a...
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Microsoft reveals Windows 7 editions
With four different retail editions and arbitrarily segregated feature sets, Windows Vista certainly didn't make shopping easy for consumers. Will Windows 7 make things any easier? Yes, says Paul Thurrott, who's heard about Microsoft's plans for Windows 7 editions straight from the horse's mouth. At first glance, Thurrott's list of...
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Amazon opens download service for casual games
After striking a blow at iTunes with Amazon MP3 in late 2007, Amazon has now taken its first step into the brave new world of digital game distribution. Rather than compete with Valve's Steam service head-on, though, Amazon has decided to start small: the Game Downloads section on the...
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Nvidia's Ion platform
Intel has often been criticized for pairing its Atom CPU with anemic 945G-series chipsets, but now there's an alternative in Nvidia's Ion platform. Read on to see how the Atom fares with all the trappings of a modern core logic chipset and a GeForce 9400 GPU.
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Faster top-of-the-line Core i7 could be in the works
The Core i7-965 Extreme Edition has been out for barely three months and has nothing remotely resembling competition from AMD, yet Intel could already be working on a successor. At least, that's what the folks at Turkish tech site DonanimHaber seem to be sayingآ—and they've posted a CPU-Z screenshot...
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Dutch e-tailer lists 'Radeon HD 5870 X2' briefly
Is AMD planning a new, faster dual-GPU graphics card to take on Nvidia's GeForce GTX 295? That may well be the case. A Dutch retailer briefly offered a "Radeon HD 5870 X2" for pre-order last week before removing all traces of the item this morning. The listing quoted a model number—CGAX-58758X2—and...
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Seagate announces 2TB enterprise hard drive
Unlike Western Digital, Seagate has decided to target the enterprise market with its first 2TB hard drive. The 2TB Seagate Constellation ES won't ship until the third quarter, but it's launching together with several other drives under the same new brand. Seagate plans to ship Constellation ES variants with 500GB...
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